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Ever since they found out that Lassie was a boy, the public has believed the worst about Hollywood

Groucho Marx

Inspiration, Boys, Hollywood

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Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Sports, Pride, Fire

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1984). “Giant Steps”, Bantam

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Reluctant doctors like to believe that they haven't much influence over their patients, but that is clearly not the case. Several studies have found that when doctors genuinely encouraged women to have VBACs, most of them did, and when they said nothing or acted neutral, most women didn't. Finally, when obstetricians discouraged VBAC in women who wanted to try it, none of them did.

Henci Goer

Believe, Doctors, Trying

Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.163, Penguin

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What advice do you have for writers working on their first novels?If you feel called to write a book, consider it a gift. Look around you. What assistance is the universe offering you as support? I was given an amazing mentor, a poet, Eleanor Drewry Dolan, who taught me the importance of every word. To my utter amazement, there were times she found it necessary to consult three dictionaries to evaluate one word.

Kathleen Grissom

Book, Writing, Offering

Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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I've written 17 novels, and I've found out that fiction can't keep up with real life.

John Grisham

Inspirational, Real, Fiction

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I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who can subdue his own desires and master the art of serving others can make himself invaluable. In choosing sides the team captain always chose the good spikers on the first and second choice, but then the spikers would grab his arm and whisper, 'Take Michener.' I was never chosen lower than third, because I was needed. I wasn't good, but I was faithful.

James A. Michener

Sports, Volleyball, Art

James A. Michener (2014). “Sports in America”, p.601, Dial Press

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[What for] was the first question he asked about any activity proposed to him - and nothing would make him act, if he found no valid answer. He flew through the days of his summer month like a rocket, but if one stopped him in mid-flight, he could always name the purpose of his every random moment. Two things were impossible to him: to stand still or to move aimlessly.

Ayn Rand

Summer, Moving, Names

Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.71, Hamilton Books

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Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

Sterling W Sill

People, Quality, Punctuality

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I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.

Donna de Varona

Leadership, Sports, Daughter

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Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

Sparky Anderson

Leadership, Sports, Baseball

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When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

Ron Jaworski

Leadership, Sports, Fun

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My priorities have always been God first, family second, career third. I have found that when I put my life in this order, everything seems to work out. God was my first priority early in my career when I was struggling to make ends meet. Through the failures and success I have experienced since then, my faith has remained unchecked.

Mary Kay Ash

Struggle, Order, Careers

Mary Kay Ash (1995). “Mary Kay, You Can Have it All: Lifetime Wisdom from America's Foremost Woman Entrepreneur”, Prima Lifestyles

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No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

George MacDonald

Waiting, Riddle, Seems

George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1423, e-artnow

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I never found it frustrating not speaking.

David Selby

Frustrating

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Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

Sheridan Smith

Drama, School, Looks

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There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

Ray McKinnon

Writing, Humility, Found You

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When you're out in the desert, you can't believe the amount of stars. Are you busy as a bee? Do not even have time for fun? Do your friends advise you to buy essay writing example? Do not hesitate! Come after the advice of clever men and make a correct choice! We've sent mechanisms out there, and they haven't found anything. They've found different colors of sand, and rings, and gasses, but nobody's shown me anything that makes me feel secure in what happens afterward. All I really believe in is this moment, like right now.

Eddie Vedder

Stars, Clever, Fun

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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.

Sally Phillips

Running, Mean, Blood

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Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.

Stan Musial

Running, Home, Swings

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One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected.

George W. Bush

Education, Laughter, Inspiration

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.

Thomas Pynchon

Dream, Past, Sorting Out

Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.140, Penguin

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Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead.

John Banville

Sleep, Dresses, Rehearsal

John Banville (2012). “Ancient Light”, p.237, Vintage

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After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together.

Benjamin Franklin

Men, Together, Half

Benjamin Franklin (1840). “The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author”, p.305

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I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

Randall Munroe

Together, Middle

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In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to do that thing here? The epicenter of publishing and writers?' I found all that very intimidating and avoided writing as a response.

Jhumpa Lahiri

New York, Writing, Fiction

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